Is the Pope Infallible? A Look at the Evidence by Dr. Norman L. Geisler 2012
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Contents
Introduction. 5
Chapter 1 | The Meaning of Infallibility. 7
The Claim to Infallibility. 7
The Limits of Infallibility. 8
The Sphere of Infallibility: Faith and Morals. 8
The Consequences of Denying Infallibility: Eternal Damnation. 9
Chapter 2 | The History of the Roman Catholic Claim to Papal Authority. 10
The Development of the Authoritarian Structure of the Roman Church. 10
The Development of the Roman Claim to Exclusivity. 12
The Background of Rome’s Claims. 13
Cyprian (d. 258) 13
St. Augustine (354–430) 14
“Imperial Edict” (ad 680) 14
The Second Council of Nicea (ad 787) 14
Fourth Lateran Council (ad 1215) 15
Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274) 15
Pope Boniface VIII (1234–1303) 16
The Council of Trent (ad 1545-63) 16
Vatican I Council (1870) 16
Vatican II (1962–1965) 17
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994) 17
Chapter 3 | The Biblical Arguments against Papal Infallibility. 19
The Biblical Argument against Peter’s Primacy. 19
The Biblical Argument against Peter’s Infallibility. 20
The Historical Argument against Infallibility. 21
The Argument from Conflicting Popes. 22
The Argument from Heretical Popes. 23
The Argument from the Condemnation of Galileo. 26
The Argument from Contradictory Decisions of Ecumenical Councils. 27
The Epistemic Argument against Infallibility. 29
The Argument from the Lack of Infallible Lists of Infallible Statements. 30
The Argument from Death by Qualification. 31
The Logical Extension Argument against Infallibility. 31
Chapter 4 | Some Serious Implications. 34
Rome is not the True Church. 34
Is Rome a False Church?. 34
Rome’s False Doctrines. 34
A True Church with Significant Error?. 35
Where is the True Church?. 36
Who is the Head of Christ’s Visible Church on Earth?. 37
Chapter 5 | Why Catholics are Leaving the Church in Mass. 41
Good News and Bad News. 41
Why a Few Evangelicals are become Catholic. 41
Why Catholics Become Evangelicals. 43
Why Some Evangelicals Become Catholics. 44
The Reasons Given for Converting to Roman Catholicism… 45
C. S. Lewis: A Case Study. 53
Bibliography. 55
Additional Information 58
The Shack: Helpful or Heretical? A Critical Review by Norman L. Geisler and Bill Roach
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This 13-page e-booklet is a critique by Norman Geisler and Bill Roach of the popular book by William P. Young titled The Shack. Geisler and Roach provide some background on the book, give the basic story of the book, and provides fourteen warnings about the book. Some of the critiques fit well with some segments of the emergent church movement as well.
A History of Western Philosophy, Volume II: Modern and Postmodern: From Descartes to Derrida
By Dr. Norman L. Geisler
2012
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Having covered ancient and medieval philosophy in Volume I, Dr. Geisler proceeds to tackle the modern and post-modern periods of philosophy–from Descartes to Derrida! One of the things that makes this history of philosophy unique is the way Dr. Geisler provides a critical analysis of the philosophies through from a Christian, Biblical, and Thomistic viewpoint.
This is the second volume of a two-volume set on the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the Post-moderns. It offers comprehensive exposition of the greatest and most influential thinkers of the western world from a Christian perspective. This very unique set is the result of a life-time of research, teaching, and writing by Dr. Geisler, the founder and first president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
Contents
Introduction. 6
The Rationalists. 11
RENE DESCARTES (A.D. 1596—1650) 11
BENEDICT SPINOZA (A. D. 1632—1677) 23
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ (A.D. 1646—1716) 37
BLAISE PASCAL (A.D. 1623—1662) 48
Early Modern Scientists. 56
FRANCIS BACON (A.D. 1561—1626) 56
GALILEI GALILEO (A.D. 1564—1642) 63
The Empiricists. 69
JOHN LOCKE (A.D. 1632—1704) 69
GEORGE BERKELEY (A.D. 1685—1753) 82
DAVID HUME (A.D. 1711—1776) 92
IMMANUEL KANT (c. A.D. 1724—1804) 108
THE ENLIGHTENMENT—AN INTRODUCTION.. 123
British Enlightenment. 127
The French Enlightenment. 128
German Enlightenment. 132
American Enlightenment. 133
Post-Kantian Idealism… 135
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE (A.D. 1762—1814) 136
FRIEDRICH WILHELM JOSEPH VON SCHELLING (A.D. 1775—1854) 142
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (A.D. 1770—1831) 146
JOSIAH ROYCE (A.D. 1855—1916) 155
LUDWIG FEUERBACH (A.D. 1804—1872) 163
FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER (A.D. 1768—1834) 169
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (A.D. 1788—1860) 177
SØREN KIERKEGAARD (A.D. 1813—1855) 189
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (A.D. 1844—1900) 204
KARL BARTH (A.D. 1886—1968) 213
MARTIN BUBER (A.D. 1878—1965) 220
EMIL BRUNNER (A.D. 1889—1966) 225
INTRODUCTION TO PHENOMENOLOGY. 231
EDMUND HUSSERL (A.D. 1859—1938) 232
MARTIN HEIDEGGER (A.D. 1889—1976) 238
PAUL TILLICH (A.D. 1886—1965) 250
RUDOLF BULTMANN (A.D. 1884—1976) 255
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE (A.D 1905—1980) 259
KARL MARX (c. A. D. 1818—1883) 265
INTRODUCTION TO POSITIVISM (SCIENTISM) 270
AUGUSTE COMTE (A.D. 1798—1857) 275
HERBERT SPENCER (A.D. 1820—1903) 285
CHARLES DARWIN (A.D. 1809—1882) 293
ALFRED JULES AYER (A.D. 1910—1989) 305
UTILITARIANSIM: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION.. 313
GEORGE EDWARD MOORE (A.D. 1873—1958) 315
JEREMY BENTHAM (A.D. 1748–1832) 323
JAMES MILL (A.D. 1773—1836) 326
JOHN STUART MILL (A.D. 1806—1873) 327
ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY. 339
BERTRAND RUSSELL (A. D. 1872—1970) 348
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (A.D. 1889—1951) 359
J. L. AUSTIN (A. D. 1911—1960) 369
CONVENTIONALISM: An Overview of the Philosophy of Science. 375
PRAGMATISM… 380
WILLIAM JAMES (A. D. 1842—1910) 382
JOHN DEWEY (A. D. 1859—1952) 399
SIGMUND FREUD (1856—1939) 416
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (A. D. 1861—1947) 426
PROCESS THEOLOGY VS. TRADITIONAL THEISM ON TIMELESSNESS. 442
Charles Hartshorne (1897—2000) 449
Schubert Ogden (b. 1928) 452
Nelson Pike (1930-2010) 459
OPEN THEISM (FREE-WILL THEISM or Neo-Theism) 464
INTRODUCTION TO POST-MODERN AND DECONSTRUCTIONIST THINKERS. 471
PAUL-MICHEL FOUCAULT (A. D. 1926—1984) 475
JACQUES DERRIDA (A. D. 1930—2004) 480
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD (A.D. 1924—1998) 490
RICHARD RORTY (A. D. 1931—2007) 493
POST-MODERNISM IN THE CHURCH.. 504
THE EMERGENT CHURCH: THEOLOGICAL POSTMODERNISM… 504
Bibliography. 524
GLOSSARY. 527
A History of Western Philosophy, Vol. I: Ancient and Medieval
by Dr. Norman L. Geisler
2012
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This is the first of a two-volume set on the history of philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the Post-moderns. It offers comprehensive exposition of the greatest and most influential thinkers of the western world from a Christian perspective. This very unique set is the result of a life-time of research, teaching, and writing by Dr. Geisler, the founder and first president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. Volume one covers all the major Western thinkers of ancient and medieval philosophy from Thales to Plotinus to Aquinas to Gerson.
Contents:
Introduction: the History of Philosophy 7
The Four Great Periods of Western Thought 8
The Origin of Western Philosophy 9
EARLY CHRISTIAN THINKERS (c. 2nd and 3rd cents. A.D.) 116
JUSTIN MARTYR (c. A.D. 100—165) 117
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (c. A.D. 150—211/215) 119
TERTULLIAN (c. A.D. 155 or 160 — after 220) 127
GNOSTICISM (c. A.D. 2nd to 4th Centuries) 132
PLOTINUS (NEO-PLATONISM) (c. A. D. 205 – 270) 138
MEDIEVAL PHILSOPHY 150
SAINT AUGUSTINE (c. A.D. 354 – 430) 150
PROCLUS (c. A.D. 410 – 480) 160
BOETHIUS (c. A.D. 480 – 525) 165
DIONYSIUS [DENIS] THE PSEDUDO AREOPAGITE (fl. c. A.D. 500) 172
JOHN PHILOPONUS (c. A.D. 490 – 570) 176
INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY 181
MUHAMMAD (c. A.D. 570 – 632) 184
JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA (c. A.D. 810 – 877) 185
INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY 194
AL KINDI (c. A.D. 801 – 873) 195
AL FARABI (C. A. D. 872 – 950) 200
AVICENNA (IBN SINA) (C. A.D. 980 – 1037) 203
THE RISE OF JEWISH PHILOSOPHY 213
AVICEBRON (SOLOMON IBN GABRIOL) (c. A.D. 1020 – 1070) 214
AL GHAZALI (c. A.D. 1058 – 1111) 216
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY (c. A.D. 1033 – 1109) 219
PETER ABELARD (c. A.D. 1079 – 1142) 230
AVERROES (c. A.D. 1126—1198) 238
MOSES MAIMONIDES (c. A.D. 1135-1204) 243
PETER LOMBARD (c. A.D. 1100 – 1160) 247
WILLIAM OF AUVERGNE (c. A.D. 1180/1190—1249) 249
ROBERT GROSSETESTE (c. A.D. 1175 – 1253) 254
ST. BONAVENTURE (c. A.D. 1221 – 1274) 257
ALBERT THE GREAT (c. 1200 – 1280 A.D.) 270
THOMAS AQUINAS (c. A.D. 1224/1225 – 1274) 278
ROGER BACON (c. AD 1220 – 1292) 301
JOHANNES (JOHN) DUNS SCOTUS (c. AD 1265/66 – 1308) 309
MEISTER (MASTER) (JOHN) ECKHART (c. AD 1260 – 1326) 316
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM (c. AD 1285-1349) 321
NICHOLAS OF CUSA (c. A.D. 1401-1464) 332
FRANCIS SUAREZ (c. A.D. 15481617) 338
JOHN GERSON (A.D. 13631492) 343
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO MODERNITY 345
SELECT BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 347
Third edition. In 2013, Norm made some minor revisions to the book. Although this edition is not currently available, Bastion Books is working to publish it in 2022 or 2023.
CONTENTS
PREFACE 5 INTRODUCTION – AN INVITATION TO OTHER WORLDS 6 CHAPTER 1: THEISM – A WORLD PLUS AN INFINITE GOD 15 CHAPTER 2: ATHEISM – A WORLD WITHOUT GOD 38 CHAPTER 3: PANTHEISM – A WORLD THAT IS GOD 66 CHAPTER 4: PANENTHEISM – A WORLD IN GOD 95 CHAPTER 5: DEISM – A WORLD ON ITS OWN MADE BY GOD 131 CHAPTER 6: FINITE GODISM – A WORLD WITH A FINITE GOD 166 CHAPTER 7: POLYTHEISM – A WORLD WITH MORE THAN ONE GOD 193 CONCLUSION: CHOOSING A WORLD VIEW 227 GLOSSARY 239 BIBLIOGRAPHY 243 APPENDIX A: ISLAM AS A WORLD VIEW 256
Biblical Inerrancy: The Historical Evidence By Norman L. Geisler 2013
The first edition of this book was published under the title of Decide for Yourself: How History Views the Bible by Zondervan in 1982 and was republished with the same title by Wipf and Stock (2004). Print versions of the first edition can be found at Wipf and Stock here.
Second edition. In 2013, Norm made minor revisions to the book and retitled it Biblical Inerrancy: The Historical Evidence. It is not available at this time but Bastion Books intends to publish it in 2022 or 2023.
From the Preface
WHO WROTE THE BIBLE? God or men? If God inspired men to write the Bible, what did He inspire? Their thoughts? Or their words as well? How far does inspiration extend? Does it include only spiritual matters, or does it also include history and science?
The battle for the Bible has the average Christian understandably confused. Actually there is more than one battle, for there are at least six views on the nature and origin of the Bible. In using labels to identify the various views of Scripture, we must be aware that such labels are not absolute in the sense that they precisely define all those who hold to one position or another. They represent the core position of each of the various categories, but there is a divergence of view¬points within the categories, and some theologians may even hold to different elements of more than one category.
Most evangelicals hold the “orthodox” view (see Chap. 5); that is, the Bible is divinely inspired in its very words, including matters of history and science. This is also the view of The International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.
“Liberal” theologians (see Chap. 6), on the other hand, believe that only parts of the Bible are divine. They see great religious value in much of Scripture; but other parts are rejected as myth, and some are even consid¬ered barbaric.
Some “Fundamentalists” (see Chap. 7), strongly reacting against liberals, have affirmed that the Bible was ver¬bally dictated by God word-for-word.
“Neo-orthodoxy” (see Chap. 8), another reaction to liberalism but without returning to a fully orthodox view of Scripture, holds that the Bible is not a revelation from God. Rather, it is a fallible human record of the revelation God gave in His past actions. That is, God does not reveal Himself in words but only in events.
“Liberal-Evangelicals” (see Chap. 9) believe that the Bible is wholly human in origin, replete with historical, scientific, and religious errors. They believe God takes these human words and “elevates” them to be a vehicle of His word.
Much of the contemporary debate is between the orthodox or evangelical Christians and the “Neo-evangelicals” (see Chap. 10). The latter believe that the Bible is infallible but not inerrant; that is, the Bible speaks with divine authority and complete truthfulness on salvation matters but is not inerrant (without error) in historical and scientific matters.
This book was written for those who do not have ready access to the writings of the main teachers in the church for the past nearly two centuries. As will be seen, their citations support the Orthodox view of the church down through the centuries up to modern times. The other views deviate from the orthodox view because of their acceptance to one or more modern philosophical influences.
Contents
PREFACE.. 6
CHAPTER 1: A Biblical View of Inspiration. 9
The Old Testament. 9
The New Testament. 12
CHAPTER 2: The Patristic View of the Bible. 17
Clement of Rome (A. D. 30—100). 17
Justin Martyr (A. D. 100—165). 17
Irenaeus (Second Century A. D.). 19
Tertullian (A. D. 160—220). 20
Origen (A. D. 184/185—254/254). 21
Clement Of Alexandria (A.D. 150—215). 24
CHAPTER 3: The Medieval View of Inspiration. 27
Augustine (A. D. 354—430). 27
Thomas Aquinas (A. D. 1225—1274). 31
CHAPTER 4: The Reformation View of Inspiration. 33
Martin Luther (A. D. 1483—1546). 33
John Calvin (A. D. 1509—1564). 38
CHAPTER 5: The Post-Reformation Orthodox View of Inspiration. 41
Post-Reformation Orthodox View.. 41
CHAPTER 6: Liberal Views of Inspiration. 47
Harold Dewolf (1905—1986). 47
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878—1969). 51
Process Theology and the Bible. 56
CHAPTER 7: A Fundamentalist View of Inspiration. 58
CHAPTER 8: The Neo-orthodox View of Inspiration. 64
Karl Barth (1886—1968). 64
Emil Brunner (1889—1966). 67
CHAPTER 9: A Liberal-Evangelical View of the Bible. 75
CHAPTER 10: The Neo-evangelical View of Inspiration. 85
Gerrit C. Berkouwer (1903—1996). 85
Jack B. Rogers (1934–). 91
POSTSCRIPT.. 95
Biblical Errancy: An Analysis of its Philosophical Roots Revised, Second Edition Edited by Norman L. Geisler
The first edition of this book was published by Zondervan in 1981 and again by Wipf and Stock in 2004. Print versions of the first edition may still be available at Wipf and Stock here:
Second edition. In 2013, Norm made minor revisions to the book, updated the prologue and epilogue, and added one entirely new chapter on Process Theology. This second edition is not available yet but Bastion Books is working to publish it in 2022 or 2023.
Contents
PREFACE Ch. 1 Norman L. Geisler, Ph.D. – INDUCTIVISM, MATERIALISM, & RATIONALISM: BACON, HOBBES, SPINOZA. – p.7 Ch. 2 Gary R. Habermas, Ph.D. – SKEPTICISM: DAVID HUME. 21 Ch. 3 David Beck, Ph.D. – AGNOSTICISM: IMMANUEL KANT. 48 Ch. 4 Winfried Corduan, Ph.D. – TRANSCENDENTALISM: GEORG W. F. HEGEL. 77 Ch. 5 E. Herbert Nygren, Ph.D. – EXISTENTIALISM: SØREN KIERKEGAARD.. 99 Ch. 6 Terry L. Miethe, Ph.D. – ATHEISM: FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. 127 Ch. 7 John S. Feinberg, Ph.D. – NONCOGNITIVISM: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN.. 156 Ch. 8 Howard M. Ducharme, Jr., Ph.D. – MYSTICISM: MARTIN HEIDEGGER.. 195 Ch. 9 Norman L. Geisler, Ph.D. – PROCESS THEOLOGY: WHITEHEAD, OGDEN, AND OTHERS. 218 EPILOGUE – p.252 NOTES – p. 263-300
Knowing the Truth about Creation
How it Happened and What it Means for Us
Revised, Second Edition
by Norman L. Geisler
2013
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The Kindle e-book version of the second edition may be available on Amazon. But it needs to be recreated in Kindle and softcover formats.
Contents
Preface. 5 PART ONE – What the Bible Tells Us about Creation. 8 Chapter 1 | God and Creation. 8 Chapter 2 | Material Creation: Man and the Cosmos. 23 Chapter 3 | Spiritual Creation: The Angels and Heaven. 31 PART TWO | What Philosophy and Science Tell us About Creation. 38 Chapter 4 | The Three Philosophical Views of Creation. 38 Chapter 5 |The Philosophical Arguments for Creation. 53 Chapter 6 | Science and Creation. 64 PART THREE | The Moral and Spiritual Implications of Creation. 85 Chapter 7 | Respect for Creation. 85 Chapter 8 | Reverence for the Creator. 98 Appendix 1 | Biblical References to Creation. 107 Appendix 2 | The Four Basic Views on Creation. 108 Chapter Notes. 111 Index. 125 Bibliography. 129 More Information 135
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From its inception in the 1730s, the evangelical movement was underpinned by the conviction that the Bible was the inspired, infallible, and inerrant word of God. The evangelical seminaries and societies that sprang up in the 1930-1940s as a response to the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy and to the abandonment of orthodoxy in the mainline Protestant divinity schools started off as bastions of that same conviction. But it became clear in the 1970s that more humanistic notions were beginning to become endemic there too. Seminarians were learning that the Bible was ultimately more human than divine, contained errors of fact and logic, and needed to be interpreted in new ways. Seeing how these innovations would undermine and erode the foundations of their Bible-based faith, more than 300 scholars and leaders arose to meet the challenge with a scholarly, conservative, and pan-denominational response. This International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI) worked to clarify the proper ways “handle the word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15) and to educate evangelicals about its importance. As a result, the revolutionaries retreated for the remainder of the 20th-century.
Explaining Biblical Inerrancy is a collection of the three primary and two secondary documents of the ICBI corpus. It offers a witness to a historic era where conservative evangelical scholarship may have approached its zenith, delayed its twilight, and contributed to the fourth Great Awakening. This repository of 20th century wisdom should provide a valuable and timeless resource for 21st century evangelicals who stand at the cross-roads of conservation and contextualization, tradition and trends, preservation and progress, retention and revolution.
This 170-page book contains the articles of affirmation and denial from the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978), the articles of affirmation and denial from the Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics (1982), the commentary on the first statement by Dr. R.C. Sproul (Explaining Inerrancy, 1980), and the commentary on the second statement by Dr. Norman Geisler (Explaining Hermeneutics, 1983). Explaining Inerrancy and Explaining Hermeneutics were two official booklets published by the ICBI Council to help explain the meaning of the first two Chicago statements.
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A Bastion of Conservative Evangelical Christian Thought
